Where does “Līber” come from?
Līber (Latin) comes from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long, from English longitude, from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Ancestry of “Līber”, step by step
Līber traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Latin loeber
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 2 | French | lober | to lob |
| 3 | French | lob | lob |
| 4 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 5 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 6 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 7 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 8 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 9 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 10 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 11 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 12 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 13 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |